

by Guest Blogger | Nov 16, 2016 | Blog
Guest blog by Denise Wydra, Consultant at Branch Ideas What’s the Achilles’ heel of many edtech entrepreneurs? They’re brilliant and successful. It’s not their fault, of course. Through a combination of natural ability, hard work, and outstanding support, they’ve...Alchemy Vision brings workforce upskilling and training to the complex world of surgical eye care. Its platform contributes to a boost in staff efficiency, practice growth, and patient satisfaction.
Founded in 2021
Accelerated in 2023
Workforce Training
Los Angeles, California
UpBrainery provides immersive career exploration for K-12 students, specializing in Career and Technical Education(CTE). Utilizing AI and machine learning, they create personalized learning paths complete with badges and micro-credentials.
Founded in 2020
Accelerated in 2023
K-12
The Woodlands, Texas
Lingco is an adaptive language learning platform for K-12 and higher education that offers skill assessment, actionable insights, and engaging content. It helps instructors enhance course structure and student proficiency.
Founded in 2018
Accelerated in 2023
K-12
Lansing, Michigan
Ann expedites education publishing’s digital transformation by converting static documents to interactive materials using AI and machine learning.
Founded in 2018
Accelerated in 2023
K-12
Tel Aviv, Israel
Kiddie Kredit teaches children about the credit system and financial responsibility through chore completion using in-app tools, laying a strong foundation for credit knowledge.
Founded in 2018
Accelerated in 2023
K-12
Miami, Florida
Indigo Education Company empowers learners succeed through self-awareness, especially those discovering career pathways. These assessments are user-friendly and customizable, designed to help individuals of all ages and backgrounds discover their unique personal skills, traits and motivators.
Jacqueline Robillard
Kristina Tzetzos
Gagandeep Singh
Founded in 2020
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Founded in 2021
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Austin, Texas
Automation Workz provides personalized tech certification reskilling to prepare front-liners to fill the millions of tech enabled jobs in cyber security and e-vehicle networking. Learners complete training at 3x higher rate than industry average due to proprietary tech-enabled goal-setting methods.
Founded in 2019
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Detroit, Michigan
Founded in 2011
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Boston, Massachusetts
Robo Wunderkind prepares students for 21st-century careers by sparking curiosity for STEAM within students while being incredibly easy to use for teachers. It works out of the box and across the curriculum in different subject areas.
Founded in 2017
Accelerated in 2022
K-12
Austria
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2019
Workforce Edtech
New York
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
Higher Ed
Denver, Colorado
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
Workforce Education
Greater Boston Area
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2015
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts
BlocksCAD creates tools that help students of all ages pursue their love of STEAM. Their signature product, BlocksCAD, is a cloud-based 3D modeling tool that encourages users to learn math, computational thinking and coding concepts through visualization and designing models that can be 3D printed.
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2016
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts
Chalk Talk’s CollegeReady is an adaptive ELA & Math curriculum that prepares high school students for standards & State Exams. It minimizes the generosity burnout of educators by mitigating all the prep work that goes into preparing for the class. The course schedule, lesson plans, teaching materials, in-class activities, and homework assignments are all adaptively generated, leading to better learning outcomes in less time.
CareAcademy provides online professional development courses for professional and family care givers by making content more accessible and effective for learners, empowering agencies with training, providing technology that helps streamline operations, and revealing new insight into education’s quantifiable impact on health outcomes
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2018
Higher Education
Tel Aviv, Israel
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2018
K-12, Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2018
Ashley Lamb-Sinclair
Tarik Nally
K-12
Louisville, Kentucky
JustLearn empowers learners and educators, to understand global sustainability through immersive, hands-on STEM and Environmental Science education using living environments and knowledge sharing platforms, such as the PlanetBox.
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2016
Acquired 2017
Dan Kindlon
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2015
Workforce Edtech
Washington DC
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2013
K-12
Higher-Ed
Workforce-Ed
Washington DC
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2016
K-12
Phoenix, Arizona
Knowledge to Practice delivers practice-changing, healthcare education solutions that help transform patient care, enable continuity of care, and mitigate risks across hospitals and healthcare systems. Knowledge to Practice’s personalized curriculum results in an average of 56 percent improvement of knowledge retention and recall, compared to 3-5 percent of older continuing medical education (CME) models.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2015
Workforce Education
Washington DC
Listenwise is an award-winning listening skills platform that harnesses the power of listening to advance literacy and learning in all students. Our collection of podcasts and public radio keeps teaching connected to the real world. In November 2021, Listenwise was acquired by Boclips
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2013
K-12
Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2015
Workforce Education
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2015
Acquired 2017
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
Kaymbu equips educators with the best assessment, instructional planning, family engagement, and professional development tools to drive positive outcomes for every child. From photo sharing to student portfolios, school newsletters and dynamic photo books, Kaymbu connects early childhood educators with young, digital-native parents.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2017
Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
Quality Interactions offers a complete suite of online courses to meet the continuing education needs of the healthcare community. Developed by practicing physicians, their courses build critical communication skills and change attitudes and behavior by tacking complex issues like unconscious bias.
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2017
Angel Rich
Courtney Keen
Harjeet Singh
K-12
Washington DC
Founded 2009
Accelerated 2016
Acquired 2018
K-12
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2015
K-12
New York, New York
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2017
Acquired 2017
Early Education
Ann Arbor , Michigan
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2015
K-12
Boston Massachusetts
Unruly Studios is empowering students to learn fundamental STEM skills through active, social recess-style play! Unruly Studios creates the only experience in the growing category of STEM products and services to integrate physically active play and coding with Unruly Splats, which are durable, programmable floor buttons that students can control through code.
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2014
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts